elegancy

Example Sentences

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There was indeed little in common between what we may venture to call the pedantry of Germany and the superficial elegancy of the Jesuit schools.

From The Unity of Civilization by Various

The elegancy of the style and the turn of the periods make the chief impression upon the hearers.

From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by Wragg, H.

Never did the captain sacrifice force to elegancy of expression.

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

We were prettily received and entertained here, and an elegancy ran through every thing, persons as well as furniture, yet all plain.

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

All her life she had been used to the elegancy that a wealthy parentage gave, and to which her husband had been, until within a few years, an entire stranger.

From Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)